The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1887-10-18

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ond forward hatch in dense volumes The
cotton. in the hold was on fire, and there was
but one way to extinguish it, that was to flood
the ship. The tug Forest City, came up along
side OF the ship, shortly after the fire started,
and gave all the help in her power.
The tug started her. streams on
the fire, and the fire department ran
all its available hose over the British tramp,
hate Fawcett, lying inside the Hughenden,
and poured water into the hole of the YES
sci. This was kept up steadily until this
morning at 9 clock, when the ships forward
! apartments were flooded. AS soon as the ship
was Hooded the steyedoers, Messrs. Churchill,
Ward & Co., put force to work upon the ship
to unload her. The vessel is also being
pumped out. There has been no fire in the
/ after hold, and the cotton is all
right There is an iron air tight
! bulkhead between the forward and after
! apartments, which has prevented the water
! IRON getting into the after cargo. The Hugh
enden had on board about 5000 bales of cotton
| and was almost loaded, only the after-hatch
having any space left. The forward matches
were loaded ''spang" up to the top. The cot.
| ton that is soaked will amount to about hall
the cargo aboard. The Hughenden is an iron
screw steamer of ,152 tons, and is consigned
to Messrs. Richardson & Barnard.
TENNESSEE.
E. II. Johnson, Of Chicago, known as the express
robber of Mem his, has been set at liberty. In 1879
he wasarTest ID at Memphis for express robbery,
and sentenced to twentyone years in the peniten-
tlary He is a very intelligent man, and during
1854 is said to have framed bill while serving his
term that has resulted in his liberty. The bill,
which became law, shortened the good time al
lowed prisoners, His sentence had already been
commued to sixteen years for services at a fire in
the penitentiary. When the good time law
went into effect he petltioned for a Wit
Oh habeas corpus, on the ground thaI
his term had expired, and Judge Frank Reid, Of
Nashville released him He Yves at liberty eighteen
months, during which the supreme court reversed
the decision of Judge Reid, and Johnson was sent
back to the mines at Inman. month ago he Ietl-
toned for writ Of habeas corpuSon the ground that
the pe1litentiary lessees gave him his
freedom for eighteen months, and that
time should count Is a part of his
term, which, if included. would finish his term I'M
der the old good-tme law. Today Judge Terwhitt,
OF the circuit court rendered decision to that eff
feet, setting Johnson free. The pcnitcntary lesseeS
Immediately appealed the case to the supreme court,
and johnson was released on $1,000. Although
convict for thirteen years he has twice brought the
penitentary lessees as representatives of the state
into the supreme court as defendants
At last the exact official vote Oh the prohibition
amend INT is announced, and it gives 27,t9} ma
jority against it, The secretary OF state today re-
ceiyed the official votes from Rhea and Jefferson
counties, which completed the returns. The Ban
ner of today makes serious mistake giving too
small a vote against the amendment by even ten
thousand. The amendment received 1l7,50i votes
and ll5197 cast against it, making total vote
of272 70, the largest vote cast in the state. III
the race between the Taylor brothers 1856 vote
were cast and in the Bate-Reid contest 25s113,
each of the two candidates getting the highest vote
his party had ever poled. This vote, it is seem is
I5SS, ahead of the heaviest on record
The city election at Chattanooga Tuesday, was
the hottest in the history Of the city. John B. Nick
lin; democrat, was elected over Charles Whiteside
republican, by 11S majority. All the republican al
dernen were elected by majorities ranging from 900
to 500 The labor ticket cut no figure whatever in
the election. The republican majority in the city,
on full vote is about 1000.
Charles DougheIty, membe o. congress from the
first Florida distric., has been in Walker county,
Ga, for two weeks, buying up mineral lands Today
it leaked out that lie has purchased 15000 acres
about II miles south of Chattanooga for syndicate
of Pennsylvania capitalists The land contains
magnetic ore in great abundance. Two furnaces
VIII be erected on the property and railroad built
to Chattanooga.